AWS - Amazon Web Services

Demistifying Amazon Web Services

An attempt to make sense of all tools and services offered by Amazon web services. This is a first part of a series of posts that will go deeper into many of these.

• 10,000 Foot Overview of AWS Platform
  • Game Development, Aritficial Intellegence, Messaging
  • Business Productivity, Internet of Things, Desktop & App Streaming
  • Application Services, Developer Tools, Mobile Services
  • Analytics, Security & Identity, Management Tools
  • Migration, Storage, Databases
  • Networking & Content Delivery, Compute
  • AWS Global Infrastructure

Let’s take a look at what is coverd in some of these services

• AWS Global Infrastructure
  • Regions
    • Geographical area
    • Region has 2 or more availability zones
  • Avalibility Zones
    • Is a data center, are often seprated/seprated from other availibility zones
  • Edge Locations
    • CDN endpoints for cloudfront
    • For caching
• Networking & Content Delivery
  • VPC
    • Virtual Private Cloud
    • Virtual data center
  • Route 53
    • DNS service
  • Cloud Front
    • Part of Content delivery network
    • For large media files
  • Direct Connect
    • Connecting physical datacenters directly with aws
• Compute
  • EC2
    • Virtial machines
  • ECS - EC2 Container service
    • Docekr container services
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Lambda
    • Serverless
  • Lightsail
    • Out of the box cloud.
• Storage
  • S3
    • Object based storage
  • Glacier
    • File archival
    • Extremely lowcost.
  • EFS
    • Elastic file service
    • Block based and volume can be shared
  • Storage Gateway
• Databases
  • RDS
    • Relational database
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • Aurora
  • DynomoDB
    • Non relational database
  • Redshift
    • Datwarehousing
  • Elasticache
    • Caching service
    • Memcache
    • Redis
• Migration
  • Snowball
    • Snowball edge
  • DMS
    • Database migration services
  • Server Migration Service (SMS)
    • Replicate virtual machines
• Analytics
  • Athena
    • SQL queries on csv files
  • EMS
    • Elastic Map Reduce
    • Process large amount of data
  • Cloud Search
  • Elastic Search
  • KInesis
    • Stream and analyze TB of data realtime
  • Data Pipeline
  • Quick Sight
    • Business Analysis tools
• Security & Identity
  • IAM
    • Fundamental componet
    • Identity and access management
  • Inspector
    • Inspects virtual machines and reports problems
  • Directory Service
  • WAF
    • Application level protection
  • Artifacts
    • Documentation related to ISO certification
• Management Tools
  • Cloud Watch
    • Monitor infrastructure
  • Cloud Formation
    • Infrastructure into code
  • Cloud Trail
    • Auditing
  • Opsworks
    • Autmate deployment using chef
  • Config
    • Auditing
    • Config management, set alerts
  • Trusted Advisor
    • Gives tips on optimization
• Application services
  • Step Functions
  • SWF
    • Simple workflow framework
  • API Gateway
    • Maintain APIs
  • AppStream
    • Streaming desktop apps to users
  • Elastic Tanscoder
    • Transcode vides to different formats
• Developer Tools
  • CodeCommit
  • CodeBuild
  • CodeDeploy
  • CodePipeline
• Mobile Services
  • Mobile Hub
    • Backend for mobile app developer
  • Cognito
    • Signup / Signin to apps
  • Device Farm
    • Testing app in 100s of real physical devices
  • Mobile Analytics
    • Collect and analyze mobile data
  • Pinpoint
    • Like google analytics for mobile apps
• Business Productivity
  • WorkDocs
  • WorkMails
• iOT
• WorkSpaces
  • Desktop & App Streaming
  • AppStream 2.0
• Artificial Intelligence
  • Book by nick
  • Alexa
    • Voice service in cloud
  • Lex
  • Polly
    • Text to speech
  • Machine Learning
    • Give datasets and outcome - analyze
  • Rekognition
    • Tell you what is there in picture.
• Messaging
  • SNS
    • Notification service
  • SQS
    • Simple queue service
  • SES
    • Simple email service